Did Roots help contribute to the decline of the Blaxploitation genre?
https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-Blaxploitation-films-Did-the-70s-kill-it/answer/Jon-Mixon-1
Following the success of Roots on television and the “White guilt” that it invoked, making films about badass drug dealers and pimps seemed to be offensive to many. While the roles for Black actors didn’t increase and even though there were still exploitative films being made, the majority of Blaxploitation films were ended by 1979.share